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CNN: Worldwide March for Our Lives and Gun Reform

Dakin Andone, Amanda Jackson and Isabella Gomez March 25, 2018
A tipping point was reached after 17 students and staff were gunned down in an affluent high school in Parkland, Florida. Survivors swiftly and articulately pointed to the US leading in gun violence and the need for controls like background checks and limits on assault weapons. They criticized politicians who instead do the bidding of industry associations like the National Rifle Association and...

New York Times: Bolton Used Cambridge Analytica’s Data

Matthew Rosenberg March 24, 2018
The Guardian and the New York Times recently reported that the London-based consulting firm Cambridge Analytica harvested more than 50 million Facebook profiles and assessed them for targeting with political advertising. Days later, Donald Trump fired his national security adviser and selected John Bolton, 69. In 2014, Bolton created a political action committee that paid more than $1 million to...

The Wall Street Journal: US to Apply Tariffs on Chinese Imports

Bob Davis March 23, 2018
“President Donald Trump sought to rewrite the rules of global trade on Thursday with a long-pledged trade offensive against China,” writes Bob Davis for the Wall Street Journal. “The administration’s actions, including a threat of tariffs on $60 billion of imports and tighter restrictions on acquisitions and technology transfers, came in response to what it claimed were Chinese efforts to obtain...

RSIS: Trump’s Protectionism

Linda Lim March 21, 2018
The Trump administration adopts a protectionist stance, contending that the United States is not treated fairly in trade agreements. Protectionism is harmful for economies, and critics are many, inside the United States and beyond, for the US tariffs on aluminum, steel, solar panels and more. Yet politicians often rely on protectionist messages that appeal to the working class, increasing voter...

Fortune: US Deep in Debt

Shawn Tully March 20, 2018
A rising US stock market hinges on a treacherous mound of debt growing due to recent tax cuts for corporations and workers. “The U.S. government’s huge and growing budget deficits have become gargantuan enough to threaten the great American growth machine,” writes Shawn Tully for Fortune magazine. “On our current course, we’re headed for a morass of punitive taxes, puny growth, and stagnant...

Channel 4: Cambridge Analytica Election Consultants Filmed

March 20, 2018
Cambridge Analytica executives claim to have consulted on more than 200 elections around the globe - the website claimss 100 - and an undercover investigation in London suggests the company may have used extreme measures to support candidates in violation of the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Channel 4 News reporters posed as prospective clients over four months, filming...

The Observer: Facebook Profiles Harvested

Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-Harrison March 19, 2018
A whistleblower has exposed how Cambridge Analytica, a data analysis firm, relied on a software program and Facebook user profiles to target voters with political advertisements. The number represents about a quarter of the US electorate. “Documents seen by the Observer, and confirmed by a Facebook statement, show that by late 2015 the company had found out that information had been harvested on...